Ohio County, Kentucky Power Outages, 2015 to 2023

Ohio County, Kentucky had 13 major outages from 2015 to 2023

Above middle outage time among US counties

Residents here averaged 0.97 times the US outage time per person and 0.94 times the Kentucky rate. It ranks 51 of 114 in the state, where 1 has the most. Data confidence: High, with 9 years of records.

1.4major outages per year

7 of 9years with a major outage

101 hrslongest major outage

Mar, Dechardest months

March and December made up 52% of this county's outage time. The largest outage on record began Mar 3, 2023, reached 4,528 customers, and left at least 200 customers out for 101.0 hours.

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Outage impact by year

Customer-hours without power. 1,000 customers out for 2 hours is 2,000 customer-hours.

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Show yearly numbers

Year	Customer-hours	Reported outages	Major outages
2015	6,098	9	0
2016	20,828	14	2
2017	42,523	21	1
2018	43,090	31	3
2019	30,238	24	2
2020	6,771	17	0
2021	115,622	28	1
2022	34,034	28	1
2023	212,710	41	3

When outages hit

Share of this county's customer-hours by month.

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Largest outages on record

Start date	Hours	Peak customers	Customer-hours
Mar 3, 2023	101.0	4,528	130,560
Dec 11, 2021	40.0	9,485	97,464
Jun 29, 2023	34.0	4,863	44,819
May 27, 2017	8.8	5,222	24,692
Mar 12, 2018	18.5	1,436	15,336

Hours measure how long at least 200 customers in the county were out. Most customers get power back sooner.

Size your backup battery

Start with what you would keep running. Wattages are typical averages, so check your own appliances.

Phones, Wi-Fi, lights, about 60 WRefrigerator, about 60 WChest freezer, about 40 WGas furnace fan, about 160 W

Hours to cover: 24

1,700 Whof battery capacity, allowing for about 15% conversion loss

If anyone relies on medical equipment, plan that with their provider. Run portable fuel generators outdoors only, at least 20 feet from doors, windows and vents. See the outage checklist.

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How to read this

A major outage lasted at least 8 hours and reached customers equal to at least 1% of county residents.
Records cover outages of at least 200 customers in a county. They do not show what happened on your street.
Utilities that do not report can make a county look better than it is. Data ends in 2023. Read the full method.